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• Architects: Desai Chia Architecture
• Location: Water Mill, NY, United States
• Architect In Charge: Katherine Chia, Arjun Desai
• Area: 4600.0 ft2
• Project Year: 2015
• Photographs: Paul Warchol

• Contractor: Aran Inc.
• Structure: Murray Engineering
• Sustainability Consultant: New York Building Technologies
• Lighting: Christine Sciulli Light + Design
• Landscape Design: Summerhill Landscape
• Av/Security: Connected Hearth

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From the architect. We expanded a traditional shingled cottage home by marrying a new addition and a renovation project together.  The design reorients the house to the garden, an existing swimming pool, and the bucolic views of the neighboring farm in order to reinforce the relationships between outdoor activities and the surrounding landscape.

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The living area, dining area and kitchen were moved from the old cottage into the new addition to establish clear connections to the garden and pool.  The addition creates a new main entrance to the house, drawing guests directly into the most socially vibrant part of the home.

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The first floor of the cottage was renovated and converted into a family room, home office and guest bedroom suite.  The upper floor was renovated to provide larger bedrooms, a shared bathroom, and a sitting area that overlooks the neighboring farm.

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Courtesy of Desai Chia Architecture

Our concept for the addition included a bold interpretation of vernacular forms and materials.  The new addition offers an expressive counterpoint to the old cottage; its form is defined by a powerful, undulating, vaulted ceiling of structural framing that celebrates the living areas.  The architectural language of the original cottage was refined and simplified with a new palette of details and lighting concepts to enhance the flow of light and space. 

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© Paul Warchol

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The clients are thrilled with the design and also the fact that the renovation/addition approach reduced their construction time frame, kept costs down, and met their sustainability goals of reducing demolition waste.

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Since 2009, Mario Carvajal has captured amazing panoramic photographs from his hometown in Colombia as well as top destination spots around the globe. He has climbed the Empire State Building in New York and Colpatria Tower in Bogota, Colombia. Carvajal has captured the geographical beauty of Iceland as well as the intensity of Paris at night. 

As Carvajal mentioned in an interview with ArchDaily, images in 360 degrees “allow the viewer to dive into an attractive and interesting ‘virtual world’ to experience immersive sensations”. Of course, with the new surge in popularity these types of pictures have experienced with the hardware becoming more readily available and these images being shared more and more every day through Facebook, Carvajal’s work reaches new levels, allowing thousands of people to see the world from above. 

Below, we invite you to see his best shots of iconic buildings and landscapes around the world. For a complete experience, we recommend using Google Cardboard.

Carvajal suggests that the impact of 360-degree photography “is becoming more and more important thanks to the hardware that is becoming part of people’s everyday lives. Hardware such as virtual reality glasses, cell phone incorporating a gyroscope, tablets … but also to new cameras that allow virtual reality with little effort, capturing scenes spherically. For example, Ricoh Theta, the Samsung Gear 360, the Nikon KeyMission, among others.”

When asked about his favorite shot, Carvajal explains:

It’s so hard and I don’t know how to choose between the photo that I titled “The last view of King Kong,” which represents the final view that King Kong had from the Empire State Building in New York, or the photograph of Caño Cristales, my favorite place in Colombia, where a river of colors, especially red can be seen. I do not know! I’ll take both!

París | Eiffel Tower

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Madrid | Castellana 81

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Bogotá | Colpatria Tower

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Ciudad de México | Historic Downtown

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Bogotá | Virgilio Barco Library

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Medellín | El Poblado

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Miami | Miami Beach

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Colombia | Caño Cristales

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Colombia | Villa de Leyva

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Islandia | Jökulsárlón

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From Yaba in Lagos to the suburb of Bandra in Mumbai, Metropolis Magazine provides a scenic tour around the world’s “most creative” neighborhoods. Spread across ten rapidly growing cities like Cape Town and Turin, the article provides a comprehensive glimpse into these lesser discussed hubs of creativity.

Metropolis acknowledges that so-called “creative” neighborhoods are often in tension with gentrification, but highlights how the spaces within these changing areas can also increase public accessibility to the arts. This is seen in Lisbon’s Avenidas Novas which hosts the documentary film festival DocLisboa, while downtown São Paulo is identified for cultural facilities like the non-profit arts center PIVÔ which regenerate previously crime-ridden areas.

Many of these neighborhoods are also home to notable architecture, playing host to both notable buildings and the studios of current firms. The Daimyo suburb of Fukuoka for example, is not just full of bookstores and concert halls, but also close to Aldo Rossi’s Hotel Il Palazzo and housing by OMA, while A-cero’s offices are located in Malasaña, Madrid, surrounded by other design firms and fabrication facilities.

To see Metropolis Magazine‘s full ranking of the ten most creative neighborhoods in the world–and to find out more about each one–read the full piece here. 

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• Architects: Markus Schietsch Architekten
• Location: Co. Cork, Ireland
• Area: 150.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2014
• Photographs: Andreas Buschmann

• Construction Management: Kevin Gartland Architects, Cork
• Structural Engineer: Fourem Consulting Engineers, Cork
• Technical Services: Sean O‘Leary, Ballingeary

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Picture an Irish country house nestled in the gently rolling hills of the County Cork. The client, a neurologist and psychiatrist, wanted to extend the house to include new living quarters and a master bedroom. In addition to the spatial extension, the new master bedroom is designed both to rest elevated on the neighboring hillside to get the best view of the wild-romantic Irish landscape, as well as to embed the house even stronger into the surrounding area. 

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The new extension now connects directly to the existing building and stretches to the northerly hillside. At the foot of the small hill the house is bent vertically upwards. The new space uses the shape of the existing building as a springboard and develops it further into an expressive sculpture. This evolution results in intriguing spatial situations and relationships: The alternating legibility between classic house and expressive sculpture results in a harmonic yet iconographic building ensemble. The new relationships between the surrounding landscape and the generous flowing space enrich the living experience and contrast with the existing cottage.

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In the interior the distinctive bend of the existing cottage roof is mirrored in a new undulating spatial layer. The curved stair elements connect the living area on the ground floor with the elevated master bedroom up on the hillside. Underneath partially sunken into the earth the bathroom is designed as a ‘color-space’ contrasting the green of the Irish landscape. A generous opening connects the existing house and the new extension.

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• Architects: BDG architecture + design, Matheson Whiteley
• Location: 18 Upper Ground, London SE1, United Kingdom
• Client: Ogilvy Group UK, MEC, WPP
• Project Year: 2015
• Photographs: Gareth Gardner, Maris Mezulis Studio

• Consultant Architect: Matheson Whiteley
• M&E/Sustain: Arup
• Pm/Cost: Bollingbrook
• Cost (M&E): Quantem
• Contractor: Structure Tone
• Developer: Deerbrook
• Feature Lighting: Jason Bruges Studio
• Landscape: Schoenaich Landscape
• Enabling Works: Shaca
• Branding Artwords: Acrylicize

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Prior to embarking on the architectural design, BDG undertook a strategic review of Ogilvy and MEC, through our Assess, Audit and Align process, this included a review of relevant future working; benchmarking against similar organisations; analysing the current workplaces and shortlisted buildings; mapping movement patterns, establishing a hierarchy of spaces. 

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All of the above analysis was compiled into a future working model, based on a more empowered culture of working in a dynamic environment with collaborative working and a common spatial culture. 

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The chosen building, Sea Containers, has undergone a major refurbishment to provide a new office and hotel building, with Ogilvy and MEC the office tenants. 50% of their space has been taken from Shell + Core to enable the design team to influence the space in a more cost effective and architectural manner.

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The team has created state of the art flexible workspace – boldly pushing the boundaries of commercial interior architecture. 

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The project questions all aspects of what commercial environments can offer by setting its sights high and drawing on examples from other landmark buildings along the Southbank. 

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The Sea Containers building offers its users an environment as culturally stimulating as the Hayward Gallery with the quality of the National Theatre and a catering offer to rival the Oxo tower.

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